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Jewish Living is a new thoroughly modern bi-monthly magazine that celebrates Jewish home, Jewish family and Jewish cultural life like no other magazine ever has.
Uniquely designed to help Jewish families & individuals emotionally connect with, and actively participate more fully in Jewish life, Jewish Living magazine is an engaging, entertaining and practical celebration of modern Jewish life with all the appeal of a classic lifestyle magazine. more
This November, Jerry Seinfeld is making his big screen debut as an animated insect in Bee Movie, a movie he wrote, produces, and stars in. He voices Barry B. Benson, a bee fresh out of college who is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a rare trip outside the hive, Barry discovers humans are mass consumers of honey and decides to sue the human race for stealing bees' honey. We had the opportunity to give Seinfeld a call to shmooze with him about the upcoming film, fatherhood, and what's in store for his future. More
From Israel With Love
Nadav Schirman discusses his new documentary, The Champagne Spy
When John Le Carré admitted several years ago he was a longtime agent of Britain's intelligence services, the bestselling spy-thriller writer explained his involvement in the sort of terms you’d expect from someone who had for decades brilliantly captured boys’ spirits with a romanticized vision of espionage. "I really believed at last that I had found a cause I could serve," Le Carré, then 69, said in a TV documentary, The Secret Centre. "I also longed for the dignity which great secrecy confers upon you." more
Why Every American Jew Should Love the Boston Red Sox and Hate the New York Yankees, the Annotated Edition
By Bradford R. Pilcher
There are five seminal moments in the history of Jewish baseball players. Four of them involve the Boston Red Sox. Only one of them involves the New York Yankees. I really think you should do the math. more
Q. What is Jewsrock.org?
A. Jewsrock.org is a non-profit group devoted to illuminating the intersection of rock and roll and Jewish culture. We've heard a lot about what the Jews have contributed to science, literature, the fine arts--all the high brow stuff. Well, we're going low. Today, we’re a website, filled with original essays, photographs, trivia, lyrics, Q & As, and, if you haven’t noticed it already, a Jewish rock quiz. And this is just the beginning. More
Jewish Noir Michael Chabon Creates a New Genre
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union By Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 432 pages, $26.95.
On January 1, 2008, sovereignty over the Federal District of Sitka, the Jewish homeland in Alaska, “a crooked parenthesis of rocky shoreline running along the western edges of Baranof and Chichagof islands,” will revert to American control. When that happens, the Sitka District Police will be dissolved, and Jewish police officers, whose kind have been walking the beat in a Jewish state for 60 years — since their Godforsaken homeland was reluctantly created at the sufferance of the United States — may get thrown out of their jobs. “Nothing is clear about the upcoming Reversion,” Michael Chabon writes in his new novel, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” “and that is why these are strange times to be a Jew.” More
Battle of the Brei
What to do with your leftover matzah
My father said I shouldn’t write about matzah brei because it’s just not that good. His main complaint: “It always needs salt.” In my household growing up, this was true. But after a heavy shower from the saltshaker and a long squeeze from the ketchup bottle, my mother’s matzah brei was toothsome indeed.
Mom never made it fancy: I always thought of hers as scrambled eggs more than anything else, and it didn’t take much more effort to prepare. I’d pass through the kitchen the week after Passover to find her stuffing leftover matzat into a pie dish filled with raw eggs, then weighing them down with a second plate, always careful to stay over the sink lest—GASP—spillage occur. (My mom has a knack for a spotless kitchen: messy preparations always happen over the sink or trashcan and no crumb escapes a damp Bounty.) more
March/April 2007
THIS GLASS IS HALF FULL
Ira Glass, the host of public radio's ridiculously popular This American Life, is taking his show to a whole new arena - television. Will his 1.7 million weekly listerers follow? Stay tuned.
He may lack the authoritative, enunciated intonations of an old schoolbroadcaster, but Ira Glass has one of the most familiar voices in radio. As the host and creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program This American Life, now carried on 500 stations nationwide, he has captivated listeners since 1995, now reaching an audience of 1.7 million plus many more who regularly download the show’s podcasts. The irony is not lost on Glass.
“I have an utterly average voice. It’s just sheer repetition that makes it sound like it belongs on the radio. If you compare my voice with a really great radio announcer, I’m just a whiny Jew,” he self-deprecatingly tells me while promoting his latest venture, a six episode, half-hour TV version of This American Life that will premiere on Showtime March 22 at 10:30 PM. But there’s a lot more to Glass than that last self-assessment implies, as became evident in a one-on-one conversation where the storyteller’s own story emerged. more
February 26, 2007
Introducing: Israeli Baseball?
Former major leaguers Ken Holtzman, Art Shamsky and Ron Blomberg will manage three of the six teams in the first season of the Israel Baseball League, the nation's first foray into professional baseball.
The inaugural season will begin June 24, 117 days from today, with a 45-game schedule covering eight weeks and culminating in a championship.
The three managers met at a press conference today in New York, where they were joined by the league's Commissioner, Daniel C. Kurtzer, the former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel; Dan Duquette, the former General Manager of the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox, who serves as Director of Baseball Operations; and Larry Baras, the Boston businessman who conceived the league. Mr. Baras is Managing Director, IBL and IBL Community Foundation.
Also in attendance today was one of the 120 players who will populate the league's rosters -- Leon Feingold, a New Yorker who will realize a dream by playing pro-ball in Israel. He is representative of the players who have been signed out of Dan Duquette's tryout camps. Tryouts will continue March 6-7 in the Dominican Republic, and April 15 in Los Angeles. more
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There are five seminal moments in the history of Jewish baseball players. Four of them involve the Boston Red Sox. Only one of them involves the New York Yankees. I really think you should do the math. 
